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Book 11 of 24 · Set 9

The Goat in the Boat

Read the book. Tap a word to hear it. Tap Show sounds to see the sounds in each word.

  1. A white goat sits in a small wooden boat while raindrops fall around it.

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  2. A very wet goat with dripping fur looking up at grey clouds.

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  3. A woolly sheep on the river bank spots the boat and jumps with excitement.

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  4. The sheep and the goat side by side in the boat under a big green leaf, watching the rain.

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For grown-ups

Every word in this book can be read with the sounds taught up to set 9, plus these tricky words: a, the, we. Let your child sound out and blend each word, and read the whole page again for fluency. Tap Show sounds to see dots under single-letter sounds and bars under sounds written with more than one letter.

Talk about it: what happened on each page? What do you think happens next?

Follow your own programme. This order follows the general Letters and Sounds phase order (GOV.UK, 2007, now historical). Schools in England choose their own phonics programme. The DfE publishes a list of validated programmes (there is no legal requirement to use one), and each programme orders the sounds a little differently. If your school has one, practise in its order and use these pages for extra listening and reading.